Use the links below to search for clinical trials by cancer type, by doctor, by drug type, by flowcharts, or by keyword (advanced search). For each trial, a short description is provided along with a link to eligibility information.

Clinical Trials

Clinical trials are extremely important to cancer patients, who may have exhausted all other forms of treatment, yet still have active disease.

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Advances in health care are impossible without human testing. Whether a treatment is a vitamin, a cancer drug, a surgical procedure, a new way to detect disease or a medical device, at some point it has to be tested on people.

Human studies, or clinical trials, are sponsored or funded by a variety of sources such as physicians, hospitals, foundations, pharmaceutical companies, voluntary or advocacy groups, universities and government agencies. Ideas for clinical trials usually come from researchers. These researchers will test new therapies or procedures in the laboratory and in animal studies, and the most promising results move on to clinical trials.

Clinical trials are extremely important to cancer patients, who may have exhausted all other forms of treatment, yet still have active disease. These patients can find hope in new treatments offered only through clinical trials and satisfaction in the fact that their participation in a clinical trial may lead to safer, more effective treatments for future patients.

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Choosing to participate in a clinical trial is an important personal decision. Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find whether new drugs or treatments are both safe and effective. Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research. All clinical trials have guidelines about who can participate. Researchers use protocols with defined criteria to identify appropriate participants and maintain safety standards.

We have ongoing clinical trials for cancer treatment and prevention. For more information about UNC trials for any cancer site, please call 919-966-4432 or (toll free) 1-877-668-0683.